"The energy efficiency initiatives by BEE (Bureau of Energy Efficiency) led to savings worth Rs 89,122 crore in 2018-19," a report released by Power Minister R K Singh on Wednesday.
02:54 - John A. De Goes Introduction
06:34 - Phil Freeman Introduction
07:38 - What is PureScript?
09:11 - Features
12:24 - Overcoming the Vocabulary Problem in Functional Programming
20:07 - Prerequisites to PureScript
26:14 - PureScript vs Elm
40:37 - Similar Languages to PureScript
44:07 - PureScript Background
47:48 - The WebAssembly Effect
51:01 - Readability
53:42 - PureScript Learning Resources
55:43 - Working with Abstractions
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In this episode, Charles is at Microsoft Connect 2017 in NYC. Charles speaks with Chris Dias and PJ Meyer about Visual Studio Code and Live Sharing. Chris and PJ explain more on their demo at Microsoft Connect on Live Collaborative Editing and Debugging. Learn more about the new features with Visual Studio Code and the efficient workflows with screen sharing, and much more.
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This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles talks with Gareth McCumskey who is a senior web developer for RunwaySale! They talk about Gareth’s background, current projects and his family. Check out today’s episode to hear all about it and much more!
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0:53 – Chuck: Hey everyone! Welcome! We are talking today with Gareth McCumseky!
1:05 – Gareth: Hi!
1:22 – Chuck: Are you from Cape Town, Africa? (Guest: Yes!)
1:35 – Gareth and Chuck talk about his name, Gareth, and why it’s popular.
1:49 – Chuck: I am in my late 40’s. You were here for JSJ’s Episode 291! It’s still a hot topic and probably should revisit that topic.
2:20 – Guest: Yes!
2:30 – Chuck: It’s interesting. We had a long talk about it and people should go listen to it!
2:45 – Guest: I am a backend developer for the most part.
3:03 – Chuck: Yeah I started off as an ops guy. It probably hurt me.
3:21 – Guest: Yeah, if you poke it a certain way.
3:29 – Chuck: Let’s talk about YOU! How did you get into programming?
3:39 – Guest: South Africa is a different culture to grow-up in vs. U.S. and other places. I remember the computer that my father had back in the day. He led me drive his car about 1km away and I was about 11 years old. We would take home the computer from his office – played around with it during the weekend – and put it back into his office Monday morning. This was way before the Internet. I was fiddling with it for sure.
The guest talks about BASIC.
6:20 – Chuck: How did you transfer from building BASIC apps to JavaScript apps?
6:30 – Guest: Yeah that’s a good story. When I was 19 years old...I went to college and studied geology and tried to run an IT business on the side. I started to build things for HTML and CSS and build things for the Web.
The guest goes into-detail about his background!
9:26 – Chuck: Yeah, jQuery was so awesome!
9:34 – Guest: Yeah today I am working on an app that uses jQuery! You get used to it, and it’s pretty powerful (jQuery) for what it is/what it does! It has neat tricks.
10:11 – Chuck: I’ve started a site with it b/c it was easy.
10:19 – Guest: Sometimes you don’t need the full out thing. Maybe you just need to load a page here and there, and that’s it.
10:39 – Chuck: It’s a different world – definitely!
10:48 – Guest: Yeah in 2015/2016 is when I picked up JavaScript again. It was b/c around that time we were expecting our first child and that’s where we wanted to be to raise her.
Guest: We use webpack.js now. It opened my eyes to see how powerful JavaScript is!
12:10 – Chuck talks about Node.js.
12:21 – Guest: Even today, I got into AWS Cognito!
13:45 – Chuck: You say that your problems are unique – and from the business end I want something that I can resolve quickly. Your solution sounds good. I don’t like messing around with the headaches from Node and others.
14:22 – Guest: Yeah that’s the biggest selling point that I’ve had.
15:47 – Chuck: How did you get into serverless?
15:49 – Guest: Funny experience. I am not the expert and I only write the backend stuff.
Guest: At the time, we wanted to improve the reliability of the machine and the site itself. He said to try serverless.com. At the time I wasn’t impressed but then when he suggested it – I took the recommendation more seriously. My company that I work for now...
17:39 – Chuck: What else are you working on?
17:45 – Guest: Some local projects – dining service that refunds you. You pay for a subscription, but find a cheaper way to spend money when you are eating out. It’s called: GOING OUT.
Guest: My 3-year-old daughter and my wife is expecting our second child.
18:56 – Chuck and Gareth talk about family and their children.
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In today’s show, Chuck talks about the recent tweet thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be absolute garbage. One of the issues with this tweet is that it doesn’t define what a 10x engineer is. Defining a 10x engineer is difficult because it is also impossible to measure a truly average engineer because there are many factors that play into measuring productivity. Chuck turns the discussion to what a 10x engineer is to him and how to find one. A 10x engineer is dependent on the organization that they are a part of, because they are not simply found, they are made. When a 10x engineer is added to a team, the productivity of the entire team increases. Employers have to consider firstly what you need in your team and how a person would fit in. You want to avoid changing the entire culture of your organization. Consider also that a 10x engineer may be hired as a 2x engineer, but it is the employer that turns them into a 10x engineer. Overall, Chuck believes these tweets are asinine because it’s impossible to measure what makes a 10x engineer in the first place, and hiring a person that fits the attributes in the list would be toxic to your company.
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